MELODIES: Open Data for Research, institutions and industry

Exprivia participated to the MELODIES project (Maximising the Exploitation of Linked Open Data In Enterprise and Science). This EU FP7 project has developed innovative and sustainable services, based upon Open Data, for users in research, government, industry and the general public in a broad range of societal and environmental benefit areas.

The main objectives of the MELODIES project are:

To combine multiple open data streams (including Earth Observation and government data) to develop innovative services in a broad range of societal benefit areas.

To apply Linked Data and Semantic Web approaches to enhance the services and enable multiple sources of data to be discovered, interpreted and cross-referenced, thereby generating new knowledge;

To ensure that the services are sustainable beyond the lifetime of the project by considering cost-effectiveness, improving data quality and maximizing their user base;

To deliver reusable technology, building upon previous e-Infrastructure investments, that facilitates the exploitation of open data by both the MELODIES services and by future services outside of the project;

To demonstrate the value of open data and stimulate the release of more open data by data providers.

In the MELODIES project Exprivia, in collaboration with INGV, developed a service that supports an assessment of Good Environmental Status (GES) as required by the Marine Strategy Framework Directive for the European Seas, to be implemented by Member States.

Exprivia accepts the digital transformation challenge so as to simplify the use of complex scenarios made up of georeferenced information coming from the most diverse sources, including sensors in orbit, fixed, mobile or worn by operators.

In the Homeland Protection sector, Exprivia has developed in-depth knowledge of large defence systems through collaboration with the largest Italian company in the sector, acquiring considerable know how in the field of electronics for land and sea defence, in safety and information protection systems, the management and control of air and airport traffic, marine, port and coastal supervision.

Exprivia has a great deal of experience in developing solutions based on the use of advanced Data & Text Mining and Big Data Analytics methods for supporting strategic decisions, intelligence and investigation activities and, more in general, the processing/correlation of data coming from heterogeneous sources. The current developments are based on Cloudera, Solr, DeepKnowledge and are dedicated to intelligence for command and control systems designed to identify and prevent threats, correlating data coming from various sources (radar, OSINT, weather, reports, staff and vehicle databases, etc.).